Call for papers: A língua companheira do império? Espaços formais e informais da língua portuguesa (sécs. XVI a XX), Italy, Feb 2017

Alice Santiago Faria Discussion

A língua companheira do império? Espaços formais e informais da língua portuguesa (sécs. XVI a XX) (efilp-2017) will take place at the University of Tuscia, Italy, on February 2nd -3rd 2017.

We request that abstracts for individual papers are submitted before November 21st, 2016.

We would welcome any historical, anthropological, literal and linguistic research concerning the dynamics of the expansion of the Portuguese language and culture around the world from the Modern Era to the 20th century.

Aiming to document the effects and the impacts of Portuguese culture and language on the world defined by the formal and informal spaces of the empire, the congress intends to examine the knowledge of the world from the Modern Age up until the 20th century, both in textual (reports, dictionaries, grammars, etc.) and non-textual (variety of languages of oral transmission) forms. By studying and analysing the dissemination of Portuguese, both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, as well as the historical reconstruction of the trajectories of the expansion of the language, the congress also intends to debate on the way the study of the past may help to better interpret the present, characterized by the new dynamics of the circulation of individuals and groups.

For more information: http://efilp-2017.wixsite.com/efilp-2017/call-for-papers